New Femininity: Making Your Own Bra

[Excerpt from Guru Kaur's blog on the Be the Woman... Private Online Community for women...]

Think bras and women's lib and the vision you're probably conjuring up is of burning bras freeing up lots of wholesome breasts to bounce their flower strewn way to the heaven of equality with men. After all, they didn't have to deal with that Shangri-la search for a bra which fitted, was comfortable and looked sexy and alluring in the process.

Although I never actually burned my bras I did stop wearing one for a long, long time. Signing the release papers for my mother's mastectomy shook me to the core, as did reading the book Dressed to Kill, which revealed the link between the modern bra and the epidemic increase in breast cancer. I was fully aware that Yogi Bhajan advocated that women wear non-underwired bras, and had heard many stories from those hippies that he had castigated for ditching their bras at the expense of their posture and muscle tissue. I gather that even he was in despair at the time that properly fitting bras were not available and talked of designing a bra which would be suitable. Sports bras were probably the best on offer, but they don't meet the sexy criteria do they?

Last year when I was asked what was the thing which was most beyond my wildest dreams which I most wanted for my birthday: I asked for a pretty, comfortable, supporting and most of all correctly shaping bra. And so my search began again...

and I discovered that there's a whole new wave of women who have found happiness, feel lighter and have literally built their own self-esteem: they make their own bras. I now have joined and there are simply no words to describe how wonderful it is to wear a bra which fits like a glove.

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